Evolution, religion, and ignorance.

[pocaracas]

ok, I'll byte.. well, I'll nibble.

If animals are changing as radically as you all imply, then every animal that exist should still have multitudes of unfinished variations in progress, proving that this process is still ongoing. We would not see one vestigial appendage, but a total package of changes that make up all animals.

You should be able to pick out hundreds of these changes as there are multitudes of subsystems that are being altered. Where are of these mistakes?

A few things:
. Change happens slowly.
. Only those who survive keep the species going.
. If they survive, then they are relatively well suited to their environment.
. Luckily, the environment tends to change slowly, too, so evolution can work at its pace. (This was a poetic anthropomorphizing of the evolutionary process, no quote mining, please)

Vestigial organs are abundant, most notably in animals that are sea mammals and sea birds, given that this drastic change must have been the most recent... as drastic changes go.
So, you see the rear flippers of sea mammals as horizontal, instead of the better ( ) design of vertical rear flipper we can see in ALL fish. They're horizontal, because that's how rear paws would have aligned.

Sea birds, let's call them penguins, still have "wings", but they can't be used for flying. Still have bird-like feet, not the best "design" for swimming.